JB/063/016/002

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other, nothing can be plainer, than that if it had
been annihilated as soon as produced, or existing
has never passed out of the Possession of the Fabricator
(and was of such Nature as never to be able so to do)
nothing of this Mischief or of any other Mischief
could have happened from it, nor would the Legislature
have had any Motive to prohibit such a Manufacture.
[+] [+] On the other hand let
us now restore add to it join with
it in supposition, another
act which stands
connected with it in reality
as it's final cause,
& we shall immediately see how
fit it is that the Law
should have constituted
it an offence. And yet it is very fit this Act should
be constituted an Offence: for he did it but in
the Intention of doing by Means of it some the
such Mischief; act thus mischievous and the preventing him from
producing that Cause of Mischief will be
preventing him the Mischief itself.

As this is a Distinction which we shall
have frequent Occasion to call to Mind, and
sometimes to draw practical inferences Consequences from, it will be
convenient to have some Name whereby the two
Classes which it gives Birth to may be separately
entitled.

Whenever therefore we observe two Offences
thus

Identifier: | JB/063/016/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 63.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	063	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	book 1st of offences in general ch. of offences principal & accessory
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f2 / /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	20205
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